Article archive / March 1, 2016
Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 3. Source pages: 8.
Laura Choate, EdD, and Licensed Professional Counselor, was named as the recipient of the 2014, Distinguished Research Award by the College of Human Sciences and Education, announced October last year by Louisiana State University.
Dr. Choate is the Jo Ellen Levy Yates Professor of Counselor Education, Louisiana State University, and also received the 2013 Best Practices Award by the American Counseling Association. She is a former editor of the Journal of College Counseling.
Laura Choate has 15 years of experience as a counselor educator at LSU and 16 years as a Licensed Professional Counselor, the announcement said, and she has written three books and 40 publications in journals and books.
The majority of Dr. Choate’s work is related to girls’ and women’s mental health.
“Based on years of research and counseling literature, her fourth and most recent book, Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture, is a guide to help parents teach their daughters to resist negative cultural messages. The book contains the strategies that parents need to prepare their daughters with the life skills they need to resist destructive cultural influences.”
Dr. Choate teaches in the Counselor Education program in the School of Education. She also serves as Chair of the LPC state board.
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